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WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 24.
On Monday evening there was a failure of the
i Northern mail. Yesterday evening the mail due
,i on Monday arrived, and that due yesterday failed
The Savannah Georgian publishes a letter from
Judge McDonald, written last winter, declaring
himself o pposed on the question of expediency to
, a National Bank, but it says nothing about the
Constitutional question. He refers to certain
resolutions presented to the Senate in 1834, ns
expressive of his opinions then, but the resolu
tions were not published. Will the Georgian be
so good as to publish them 1 We shall publish
the Judge’s letter to-morrow, with such comments
as it suggests.
The British Queen.
The Philadelphia Inquirer of the 10th, says—
I. The impression prevailed in New' York yesterday
morning, that the British Queen did not sail on
the Ist of July. And yet the Herald remarks: The
Great Western was once 24 days coming over,
and the Liverpool 22 days. The Western has
been out 12 days at noon to-day, and she made
her last trip in 12 daj’s and 7 hours, we shall ex
pect her hourly till she arrives.
Greensboro, July 18th, 1839.
Dear Sins :—I enclose you a printed copy o f
a report received a few days since from the Chev.
alier Do Gerstner, who is now engaged in ma
■ king a thorough examination of the Rail Roads
atjfd their expenditures in the United States.
After a careful analysis of the various expenses
of conducting transportation on Rail Roads in
the United States—he states the gratifying fact
that their average annual net revenue is 5J per
ccn t. —This result, when the number of unprofita
ble lines that have been executed is considered,
cannot hut be encouraging to the friends ofinter
nal improvement in general, and particularly to
those who have invested their funds in a work
acknowledged hy all to possess a good location.
Your publication of the report or extracts from
it may interest many of your readers.
Yours, truly,
J. EDGAR THOMSON.
RAIL ROADS TV THE KINGDOM OF BELGIUM
COMPARED WITH THOSE IS THE UNITED STATES.
The rapid increase of Internal Improvements
in the United Stales has excited for several years
public attention in Europe, and the friends ol
those improvements desired very much a detailed
report on the extent and progress of those works,
and particularly of Railroads. There is no such
report published in the United Stales, and even
those published in England, France, and Germa
ny are very imperfect.
In 1824 I had charge of the first Railroad on
the continent of Europe to connect the rivers
Mohlau and Danube in Austria, by a line whicli
is 130 miles long, and since 1832 in operation. 1
constructed in 183 G and 1837 the first Railroad
in Russia, from St. Petersburg to Zarskoc-Selo
and Pawlowsk, a line of only 17 miles in length,
but tiic coramencementofa Railroad of 420 miles
from St. Petersburg to Moscow. This Railroad
being likewise in full operation, I left Europe
lull fall and arrived in the Great Western on the
15 th of November, 1838. at New York. Altera
short stay of a few days I went to Albany and in
spected all Railroads between that place and Lake
Erie; I then proceeded to the Eastern States
and visited all Rail,*ads in Massachusetts,
and w’ent via New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Washington, through Virginia, North and South
Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, to New Orleans,
always visiting the Railroad linos in the different
States. I went then up the Mississippi and Ohio,
and am now inspecting the Internal Improvements
of the Western States and some of those in Penn
sylvania, which I have not yet seen.
I have already pased over more than 2000 miles
of Railroads, and have every where been receiv
ed with the greatest kindness; the Presidents, Di
rectors and Engineers of the different Railroad
lines gave me nut only all their printed reports,
but laid before me, with the grtnitest liberality,
their books and accounts, in order to give me ev
ery kind of information. I fulfil only my duty
when I publicly acknowledge, that such a liberal
ity is only to be found amongst a free and en
lightened people, where all public works are based
on the principle of publicity, and where sccretsdo
not exist. 1 wish, therefore, to make those gen
tlemen, to whom I am so much indebted, anoth
er communication, which will show at the same
lime what has been done during the last years in
Europe. Having within a few days received the
last Reports of the Belgium Railroads, I publish
in the following abstract the history and progress
of those communications in Belgium, together
with a comparison of them with the American
Railroads.
According to the facts collected during my
since rny arrival in New Y ork, there arc
now over three thousand miles of Railroads com
pleted and in operation in the United Stales,-
425 locomotives, of which the greatest number
were made iu this country, run on the several
Railroads, and I believe, that up to the end of
1839, the length of Railroads in the United
States may amount to 41 It) miles. The capital
expended on the Railroads now in operation is
about sixty millions of dollars, or at an average
cost of twenty thousand dollars per mile, for
whicli sum the Railroads, with the buildings,
have been constructed, and the necessary locomo
tives and cars bought.
Several Railroads have been undertaken with
insufficient means, and the shareholders found
themselves under the necessity of employing the
income of the first years in improving the Rail
road, in building engine houses, &c., and purcha-
sing locomotives and oars. In consequence ofj
this the shareholders got during that time no divi- j
dends, but the Railroad still yielded a good in- i
come. Other Railroads, when finished, paid from
five to ten per cent, income to the stockholders ;
others have not yet paid any dividends for want
of a sulficient number of passengers and h eight.
The average result of the Railroads now in oper
ation in the United States is, that they girt a
yearly interest of five and a half per cent, on
the capital invested. This result must he regar
ded as very satisfactory, because the greatest part j
of the lines have only been a few years in opera
tion.
On all lines there, is a yearly increase of at least
13 to 20 per cent, in the gross income, so that
even those lines which do not pay now will give
in a few years a handsome dividend. According
to these statements, based on the communications
collected in this country, I have no doubt, that
the large capital invested in Railroads, in the
United States, will not only produce an incalcu
lable benefit to the country, but likewise pay the
shareholders a dividend, which under good man
agement, by the constant progress in population
and trade, must likewise from year to year in
crease.
A good book-keeping and clear accounts is in
every business a matter of importance; Railroads
arc now constructions, and experience, particu
larly in working them, is still very much wanted.
When the Superintendent of a Railroad in oper
ation keeps clear and distinct accounts, he will
in a few years learn by experience what can he
improved, and which items of expenses can be
reduced. The following statement contains the
manner of making the Railroad accounts, which
in my opinion must prove very useful for every
Railroad Company.
1. History, length and cost of construc
tion of the Belgian Railroads.
The Railroads which up to the present time
have been constructed in England and on the
continent of Europe, had no other object than to
connect two important places of the country, and
in constructing them, therefore, only a local in
terest more or less prevailed. That Railroads are
to be considered us great thoroughfares, that
they can form in a country the principal lines of
internal communication—that, therefore, the
means for their establishment should he such, as
only can be raised by a whole nation, nobody in
Europe would maintain previous to the year 1834,
and is even now denied by many individuals of
high standing and influence. Belgium united
with Holland since 1815, had distinguished itself
in Europe, by its fine roads, and magnificent ca
nals ; the latter, being constructed for the greatest
part in a level country, and without locks, were
used not only for the transportation of goods, hut
also for passengers, especially the lower classes,
which there, more than in any othei country,
made use of the canal boats for their travels. It
is evident, that no individuals would ever have
attempted to construct Railroads parallel and in
opposition to such canals and turnpike roads.
In the year 1830, Belgium declared itself in
dependent of Holland, and elected by the repre
sentatives of the nation its own sovereign. King
Leopold I. soon discovered, that the country, for
its perfect tranquility, wants “labor”; a series of
wise legislation encouraged the nation to useful
and profitable enterprizes, and every person with
talent and inclination found employment and
earnings in a country, which isolated from all its
neighbors, was confined to its own resources.—
But to gain the public opinion, a great national
work was to he accomplished by the new govern
ment, able to fill posterity with admiration. The
time was past for Egyptian pyramids, for Roman
triumphal arches, and French monuments ol war.
A more useful monument, one of peace and in
telligence, should remind the nation ofthat event
ful period. The King ordered the whole coun
try to be surveyed by able Engineers, the neces
sary plans and estimates formed, and on the first
of May 1834, a law was proclaimed, according to
which a system of Railroads should he introduced
through the whole kingdom, and executed at the.
expense of the State on two points (at Antwerp
and Ostend), the Railroads were to lead to the
seaports, on two points to connect with France,
and on one point with Prussia (Germany).
The news of the gigantic work, undertaken by
a State, even not yet acknowledged as such by
the northern powers, and with only four millions
of inhabitants, excited the greatest surprise in
Europe, and few only could conceive the great
results, which this grand project necessarily pro
duce on the independence of the nation and its
internal we!fire, its commerce and industry ; the
former being the principal aim and the promotion
of commerce and industry a subordinate one, al
though the great mass of the people were unable
to comprehend the grand idea ofthe plan.
King Leopold found in his former minister of
public works, Mr. De Theux, and in his success
or M'. Nothomb vigorous supporters. The En
gineers were vying in the swift prosecution of the
work, and in the course of four years more has
been done than was expected. The enlightened
minister Nothomb published annual reports to the
Legislative Assembly, besides other special re
ports of the progress of the works, in which the
public in Europe find a rich source of experience,
not to ho met with in any report or work on the
subject. Europe has to render thanks to the King,
who the first realized such a grand idea, and to
his enlightened mini ter, who judiciously con
ducted the work, and so liberally communicated
its results.
The limited space of this report docs not allow
a detailed extract from the above mentioned re
ports ofthe minister Nothomb and the Engineers,
I shall therefore only give a brief account contain
ing the results in numbers, and afterwards com
pare these results with those of Railroads in the
United States. The following table contains the
sections ofthe Railroads which were opened until
the end of 1838, and their lengths in me'trcs and
English miles.
[Here follows a statement of all the Railroads
already constructed in Belgium, the first of which
was completed sth May, 1835; and the last, 28th
August, 1838, making 159 miles in all.]
According to the report, made by the minister
to the house of Representatives, on the 26th No
vember 1838, the above ten sections including
buildings, locomotives and ears cost 34,000,000
francs; this gives per mile of Road 41,300 dollars.
The Railroad from Brussels to Antwerp, 27.2
miles, has a double track, the remainder are con
structed only with a single track, the rails weigh
ing 45 lbs.per yard. But there are several build
ings yet to he erected, and different works on tiie
line to he executed, and besides a number of
freight cars to bo provided for, &c.; with all this
the cost per mile will amount to 45,000 dollars, i
Tariff for Passengers, Speed. —There arc on |
the Belgian Railroads four classes of passenger
cars, differing only in elegance and comfort, but t
going in the same train, and therefore with equal \
velocity. The prices are:
In the Berlines, cts pr m.*] For each i
“ Diligences, 2 “ “ “ ;(Fassenger
“ Chars a'Bancs, 1 J “ “ “ [ with 44 lbs
“ Wagons, 0.8 “ “ “ J baggage. 1
The trains perform at an average 17 English |
miles per hour, all stoppages included, or from 30 j
to 116 miles while running.
In 1838 the total number of passengers amoim- I
ted, according to the “Moniteur Beige,” to 3.238,- 1
303, romprising 56,618 soldiers,and the gross in
come was 3,100,833 francs 40 centimes (581,770
dollars). As the average distance performed by
each passenger in the first 10 months of 1838 is
not mentioned in the Report of the Minister, I
supposed the income per passenger per mile to
he the same as in 1837, out of which results an
average distance of 22.8 miles. In order to show
how the travelling public made use of the differ
ent classes of cars, the following contains the
number of passengers in each class of cars, and
the revenue resulting therefrom for the year end
ing 31st December 1838. During this period
there were 17,503, passengers, Ist class, who
paid 69,322 francs 65 centimes ; 215,893 pas- i
sengers, 2d class, who paid 702,502 francs 70
centimes ; 604,935 passengers 3d class, who paid
1,033,953 francs 05 centimes; 1,343,354 pas
sengess, 4th class, who paid 1,087,790 francs 45
centimes ; 56,618 soldiers, who paid 45,248
francs 88 centimes ; for overweight of baggage,
and freight, 162,015 francs 67 centimes ; 2,238,-
303 passengers, and total income, 3,100,833
francs 40 centimes. These numbers explain
sufficiently that the Railroads in Belgium arc used
principally by the lower classes of the people.
Comparison between the gross income and the
nett revenue.
The following table contains the annual gross
income, current expenses and the surplus of in
come over the expenses, as is related in the Re
port of the Minister of the 26th of November,
1838, to which is annexed the annual surplus lor
every 100 francs of the gross income.
Total
Period. Gross income. Cur't Expenses.
francs, ct. francs, ct.
SthMay 1835,t0315t
December 1835, 268.997 50 168,772 73
Year 1836, 825,132 85 431,135 67
Year 1837, 1,416,982 94 1,155,471 91
Ist .lan. 1838, to 31st
December 1838, 2,633,532 21 1,619,189 77
Total, 5,144,645 50 3,374,579 08
As an average, therefore, of 3 J years, of every
100 franca revenue, only 34 francs 41 centimes
remained, but as all the locomotives and cars still
new, and no amount for general depreciation ap
(icars under the expenses, it is to he supposed,
that in future only 30 sanes will remain from
100. This surplus serves as interest and a sink
ing fund for the capital.
Comparison of the Belgian Railroads with
those in the United States.
According to Table under No. 3, the number
of passengers during years, reduced for the
length of one mile, amounted on the Belgian
Railroads to 88,981,763, or at an average per
year of 25,423,361. As the average length of
road in operation during the whole time was
53,1 miles, we have 478,783 through passengers
annually. The Belgian Railroads are therefore
travelled over on their whole length by nearly
500.000 passengers per year. We have now
the following comparison :
Ca.J Cost of Construction. — A mile of
Railroad with a single track, and the necessary
buildings and outfit, costs in America 20,0110
dollars ; in Belgium 41,300 dollars, or more than
twice the amount.
fb.J Tariff. —On the American Railroads,
a passenger pays at an avenge 5 cents per mile,
on the Belgian Railroads, only 1 cent or five
times less; foi freight the charge is, in America,
at an average cents per ton per mile.
(~ c._) Speed. —On the American Railroads,
passengers are conveyed with a speed of from 12
to 15 miles per hour, stoppages included; on the
Belgian Roads at the rate of 17 miles, or stop
pages not included, at the rate of from 20 to 25
miles.
f d.J Traffic. —There are at an average,
35.000 through passengers, and 15,000 tons of
goods carried annually over the American Roads;
on the Belgian there have been carried per year
478,783 through passengers, and the transporta
tion of goods only commenced a short lime
since.
fe J Gross income. — The same amounts on
the American Railroads, at an average per mile
per year.
From 35,000 passengers at 5 cents, §1750
From 15,000 tons of goods at cents, §1125
From mail and contingencies, §2OO
Total, §3075
On the Belgian Railroads the gross income per
mile from 478,783 passengers, and the transpor
tation of freight amounts to 32,000 francs or
6003 dollars 75 cents per year.
f f.J Expenses per mile of travel. —These
amount on the American Railroads to 1 dollar,
on the Belgian Roads to 1 dollar 5 cents, or they
are the same in both countries.
CK-J Number of 'passengers per trip. —ln
Belgium there were in each train, at an average
of 31 years, 143 through passengers; on the
American Roads, a passenger train contains only
40 through passcugeis, atari average.
(~h.J Number of trips per year. —ln divid
ing 35,000 by 40 wc obtain 875, as the average
number of passenger trips per year on the Amer
ican Railroads; and in dividing 478,783 by 143
we get 3348, which represents the average num
ber of passenger trains passing annually over the
Belgian Roads. As at the same time the speed
on the latter is greater than on the Amciican
Railroads.it was necessary to employ rails of 45
lbs. per yard, while their weight is generally less
on the American Railroads.
fi.J Expenses per passenger per mile. —
These are in Belgium only 0.73 cents, and in
America 2J cents, or limes more. The rea
son of it is, that the American trains contain 3)
times less passengers, while the expenses per
train per mite are c<}ual in both countries. It is
very nearly the same for a Locomotive to carry
40 or 143 passengers in a train.
(" k.J Annual current expenses. —ln Ameri
ca the annual current expenses for working a
Railroad, arc per mile,
For transportation of 35,600 passengers,
at 2.) cents. §875
For transportation of 15,000 tons of goods
at cents, §975
For transportation of the mail and other
expenses, $lOO
Total, §1950
Or 63 dollars 41 cents of every 100 dollars gross I
income. On the Belgian Railroads, of every 100 \
dollars gross revenue, the expenses are 65 dollars
59 cents, or per year per mile 3937 dollars 86
cents.
CI- J Interest on the capital invested. —ln
| America the annual average gross income, per
j mile of Road, amounts to 3075 dollars, the an
nual current expenses to 1950, leaving I 125 dol
lars, which compared with the cost of a mile of
| Road (20,000 dollars,) give percent, interest, j
j On the Railroads in Belgium, the annual gross 1
j income per mile, is 6003 dollars 75 cents, the ex- ;
i penses 3937 dollars 86 cents, leaving 2065 dol- ;
Jars 89 cents as interest on the cost of 41,300
dollars per mile, or exactly 5 per cent.
General Remarks.
The comparison of the results of the Belgian
Kail roads with those of the Railroads in the Uni
ted Slates ol America, speaks evidently in favor
ot the first. The extremely low charges for pas
sage on the Belgian Railroads has increased the
number of passengers in an unparalleled degree,
and produced an intercourse not attained in
any other country of the world. While the
higher prices in the better classes of ears yield a
considerable profit, the price in the last class or
for the great mass of the people, is so low that it
almost only covers the expenses. The Belgian
Railroads arc, therefore, throughout a I'rcnl pop
ulur, democratic establishment, which must have
found the approbation of the people and every
intelligent man ; the Belgian Railroads afford to
the government the greatest facility in the trans
portation of troops, the importance of which was
evinced principally for the last years; the Bel
gian Railroads yield, in conformity with the
grand idea of their establishment, only the in
terest and sinking fund of their capital, hut the
‘"'late Treasury has, by the increase of intercourse,
indirectly gained in all taxes, in the revenue from
tolls on turnpike roads and from tire mail; the
most important gain, however, was that kept in
view by the great founder of these roads, to bring
the nation into a more, intimate contact, and to
form of it one large family, on which the actual
national device: "I,’Union fait la force," (“Un
ion gives strength,”) becomes realized.
F. A. CHEVALIER HE GERSTNER.
Cincinnati, 25th June, 1839.
* < * Letters addressed to the care of Messrs.
Maitland, Kennedy & Co., New York.
(Ej > Five francs and 33 centimes, or 633 French
centimes are equal to one dollar. One English
mile is equal to IGIO me’tres.
Life ok a Gentleman. —Somebody has
manufactured the following :—“He gets up lei
surely, breakfasts comfortably, reads the papers
regularly, dresses fashionably, lounges fastidious
ly, cats a tart gravely, talks insipidly, dines con
siderably, drinks superfluously, kills "time indiffer
ently, sups elegantly, goes to bed stupidly, and
lives uselessly.”
Preparations to Practice Law in Mis
sissippi.—We met a young eastern friend of
ours, a few days since, in a shop purchasing a
brace ot pistols, and looking keenly at a large
Bowie knife. “What on earth are you about,”
said we, to our peaceable, demure acquaintance,
who never before had handled such a weapon.—
“Why,” he replied, “I have finished Burlemugni,
Coke, Kent, Blackstonc, &c., in Maine, and I
am now about to emigrate to practice in Missis
sippi!”— N. Y. Express.
MARRIED,
At Alexandria, on the 11th inst. by the Ucv.
Llias Harrison, G. 1). Lamar, Esq., of Savannah,
Oa., to Harriet, youngest daughter of A. C. Caz
enovc, Esq. of Alexandria.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Charleston, July 23.
Arrived yesterday— Brig Danl Webster, Adams,
Havana; brig Jones, Fisher, New York; steam
packet Georgia, Rollins, Norfolk.
Savannah, July 22.
Arrived on Saturday. —Ship Celia, buck man,
New York.
Arrivedyesterday. —Ship Mersey,Webb, Bristol.
(Eng.); Brig New Hanover, Charty Philadelphia.
Went to sea. —Ship Newark, Soullard, New
York.
MR. & MRS. CHAPMAN, on the removal of
Mr. <feMrs. Egcrton, on the Istof July next,
will take possession of the rooms now occupied by
their school, anil will continue to teach on a plan
simiar to that pursued by them.
The Summer School will commence on Monday
the Sth day of July, and continue 10 weeks. It
is their design to vary their instruction to suit the
change of season; and during the summer months
a portion of each day will be given to needle and
other fancy work. Mrs. Harris, who is already fa
vqrably known to many of the ladies of Augusta,
will give daily instruction t( such pupils as" may
desire, in Plain Sewing, Rug Work, of every vari
ety, Wax Flowers and Fruit, Worsted Flowers,
Chencille Work, Embroidery, Fancy Netting and
Knitting, Poonah and Mezzatinto Painting, Coral
Work. Transferring Lithographic Prints, Hit-.
Tuition for the Term, sio
Plain Sewing, 5
Plain and Ornamental, 10
Painting, g
Mr. & Mrs. C. will commence their regular ses
sion on the Istof Oct. next,of which due notice
will be given.
8 P 18 trwistlstA
4 n.MINISTRATOR’S NOTICE.—Four months
A after date, application will be made to the
honorable the Inferior Court of Richmond county,
when sitting for ordinary purposes,for leave to sell
the land and slaves belonging to the estate of the
late Samuel Player, deceased, for the benefit of his
heirs and creditors.
July 24. 1539. WILLIAM 11. GREEN, Adm’r
FOR RENT.—The property of the un-
I Ss-Ti dorsigned, on Broad, Campbell and Cen
.•bsfctf, tre Streets, on Mclntosh Street, near the
Presbyterian Church, at present occupied by Air.
Stockton. Apply to
McKenzie & bennoch.
July 2 wtf
N. li. The occupants of the property for the
year ensuing Ist October next, will give notes pay
able quarterly, and pay for the use of the Hy
drant water.
f JAUIINIP SEED.—A quantity of Large Flat
Jj White Turnip Seed, warranted fresh, for sale
at a reduced price bv
July 2-swtf HOPKINS, JENNINGS fc Co
A CADEMY OF RICHMOND COUNTV.—Ao
j\_ hording to a resolution of the Board of Trus
tees,on the 6th July, 1839 the election of an Eng
lish Teacher in this institution, for the ensuing
year, is postponed until the second Saturday in
August next. By order of the President,
HENRY ROBERT,
July 15 trwtd Clerk and Steward.
BEALS’ HAIR. RESTORATIVE.
miHS valuable discovery is now introduced to
n the citizens of Augusta, with the fullest
i confidence and assurance that it will effect the ob
j jeetof its application, viz : A COMPLETE RES
j TORATION OF THE HAIR upon the heads of
| those who have lost the same, and have thereby
become bald or partially so.
Numerous certificates might bo given to show
| how successfully this compound nas been applied,
never having failed in a single instance.)
Its virtues have been fully and satisfactorily
tested. The heads of those that were entirely
bald, have been by the application of this restora
tive, covered with a luxuriant growth of beautiful
hair.
None need despair whether old or young, of hav
ing their hair restored. For sale by
ROBERT CARTER, Druggist,
Broad st. and at
X T. If. PLANT’S Bookstore.
Where certificates of its successful app’ication
be seen. j June 21 swtf
NOTICE.
r T , ° r, Oil FOR SALK—The large house
I on the corner ol Ellis and Washington str’ts,
has just undergone a thorough repairand additional
rooms added to it. The house now contains 17
looms, well adapted for a large family or hoarding
house, as the rooms are so constructed by moveable
partitions as to throw two or more rooms together
without expense.
ALSO Ihe Mouse on Washington street ad
joining it. Also, two houses on Green st. opposite
the t ity Mall, Ihe house and lot would he sold a
bargain where the subscriber lives; it is a large
brick houne, 3 stories high, the internal part well
arranged for a large family, and the workmanship
is done in the very host manner, and every conve
nience a family con lit wish, and a'l in complete
order. The principle reason 1 oiler it for sa e is,
that it is altogether now, too spacious formv fami
ly-
ALSO—An excelled close Carriage and good
span of gentle family Morses, which will be sold a
grea' bargain, as 1 have no use for them. Also, a
lot ol well made Northern Wagons and Carts
HENRY MICA LI ML
Mr. John Morrison is my duly authorized Agent
during my absence. H. M.
1 11I l'< swtit
suvi ni,\ i> \o. 21 .
Office Augusta I\s. & Bk’o Co. >
July It, 1839. $
yjMIK Board of Directors have this day declared
* a Dividend of Five Dollars per share, out of
the profits of this Company, for tire past six
months, which will bo paid to the Stockholders on
and after the first of August next.
July 13 w3t ROBERT WALTON, Cashier.
N OTIC IC,--The subscribers have this day ad
mitted MV. K. Sherman info their copartner
ship. T.e business will he conducted as usual un
der the firm sf WRIGHT, HULL, & Co
June 28 6‘til-wCw
SA DUCATION.—The exercises of Mrs. Bowen’s
Cd School, will be resumed on the Ist of October,
in Air. Bennoch’s large brick building, next door
above the Bridge Bank. w3t June 13
STRAYED from the Plantation of the subscri
ber, about 9 miles above Augusta,on Butler’s
Creek, on the 10th of May hist, a Sorrel Mare
MULE, about 12 years old; no marks recollected.
A suitatl., reward will he given if delivered on
the premises or to the subscribers.
June 22 w3t BARTON & WILLCOX.
ICVlil SALE —Seven excellent Road Wagons
* and Gear. Apply to J. &D. MORRISON.
]uly 17 itw
Geo. R. Road »V Itanhing Co. f
Branch at Augusta.
DEPOSm:; in sums of five hundred dollars
and upwards, hearing an interest of six per
cent, per annum will be received at this Office
for periods not less than ninety days, subject to the
order of the depositors on receiving ten days notice
of theirintention to withdraw
nov2o wtf J. W. WlLDE,Cashier.
I NOR SALIC, a bright Wuhitto Woman, 24 years
of age, a good seamstress. Eor terms apply to
July 9 3tw* ED. CAMPFIF.LD.
GLOBE AND EAGLE HOTEL,
I Vaijncshoro, Oa.
M AJ. M. MARSH respectfully informs his
friends and the public, tint he has leased the
above establishment to Mr. LEASTON SNEED,
for a term of years. He begs leave to return bis
thanks for the generous support received from his
friends and the public, and hopes the same wiM be
continued to Mr. Sneed, who has fitted up the
house in good style, and promises to spare no exer
tions to render those who may call upon him com
fortable. His room are airy, and moot of his bed
rooms have fire-places. His table will he the best
the country can afford, and his charges suited to the
imes.
Waynesboro, July 19, 1539. w3m I
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE, f
f jpHE subscriber offers for sale, ot> the most rea
# sonaldc terms, that well known and fashion
able watering place, the HELICON SPUINUS,
situated four and a half miles from Athens, Ga. —
Attached to the Springs are two tracts of land,
containing together seven hundred acres of land,
on one of which are erected two excellent saw
mills, both now in operation. One of these mills
will cut from 1500 to 2000 feet of lumber per day,
for which a ready market can he had at lair prices.
Either tract will be sold separate from the other.
Persons desirous of purchasing such property are
requested to call and examine for themselves.
The land is mostly in the woods, of a good
quality—that which is cleared is fresh and in cul
tivation. JOHN JACKSON.
Athens, Ga., July 10, 1839. wfktrwlf
NOTICE.
(UTIZENSof Augusta and Hamburg, wliode-
J sire to avail themselves of the privilege of
passing the Augusta Bridge at half rates of toll,
will please apply to the keeper for tickets for that
purpose, which will be sold as follows:
Eor 2 horse pleasure carriages, 12 tickets for $1 50
“ one do do do 24 tld 450
“ Man and horse 16 do 100
“ Eoot passengers 32 do 100
Tickets not transferrable, nor will they be taken
from any but citizens of these places.
Any person riding or driving faster than a walk,
will not be passed by tickets at all, and the gale
will be closed upon all such till they can be prose
cuted according to law.
Tickets will not be sold in less quantities than
above, and all persons who do not provide them
must pay the full toll.
Dray tickets may also be had for 75 cents each,
to pass one dray and horse each way.
Persons in arrears for quarterly tickets will
please settle up on or before the Ist of July, 1839,
as no person will be permitted to pass without pay
ing full toll until) they obtain their tickets for the
quarter, and no ticket will be given nntill it is paid
for. G. B. LAMAR.
June 27,1839. w it
CENTRAL HOTEL.
pmf'rjß This splendid and spacious new Brick
psply Hotel, situated on Front Street, imme
diately over the Kail Road Rank, in Athens, will
be opened in a few weeks for the reception of
Boarders and Visitors. To those who have hereto
fore favored the proprietor with their patronage, lie
deems it only necessary to announce his return to
Athens, and his intention to keep the Central Hotel,
in connexion witli ttiat pleasant and fashionable
watering place the Helicon Springs, which has un
dergone considerable improvement since the last
’ season ; by this arrangement visitors can spend
their time either in Town, or at the quiet retreat
1 which the Springs always affords to the invalid or
visitor of pleasure. To this important advantage
which his establishment presents over any other
either in Town or country, he will add his personal
exertions to render his Hotel and Watering place
all that his friends can desire. The Hotel is new,
* commodious, and situated in a central position in
Athens,and when furnished in handsome style, will
possess decided advantages over any other similar
J. s tablishmcnt in the place.
| e Athens, Ga. May 3 ts JOHN JACKSON.
I VALUABLE LANDS FOR SALE.
! nmiE subscriber being desirous of settling his
’ I affairs in Jefferson county, oilers for sale his
■ sett cmerit of first quality oak and hickory land
r consisting of five hundred acres, well improved
. with a commodious dwellinghouse, barn,gin house
I | negro houses, and other out-buildings, with one
hundred and fifty acres new cleared land under
. I good repair, adjoining land of G. W. Crawford
i Gardner Connelly,and others,on the waters of Dry
i creek. Also, five likely young negroes, all to he
I disposed of at public outcry, at the market house
! in Louisville, on the Bth day of December next.—
j 1 Terms on the day. JAMES CROSS.
I Louisville, Nov. 22,1838. wtf
VT EW-YOUK, 6«3 BROADWAY— SEMINA
IN EY FOR YOU SO LA DIES — MRS. COLEY
bc«s to call the attention of Parents and Guardians
to her Establishment, which is situated in the up
per part ot the ally ot New-iork, in a line healthy
situation.
1 he strictest attention is bestowed on the reli
gious and moral education of the young Ladies com
mitted to her care, together with a parental solici
tude for their comfort and happiness.
1 he ordinary course of instruction is combined
with all the higher branches necessary to a polite
education, in which Mrs Coley is assisted by the
most approved masters and tear hers.
The French Language is made use of as the me
dium of conversation.
Mrs. Coley has been kindly permitted to give
the following references —M.’li. McAllister, Esq.
Mayor of Savannah, John E. Ward, Esq. District
Attorney for the State of Georgia, lit. liev. Bishop
Onrlerdunk, Uev. Dr. Demon, Bev. Ur. Lyell. Kev.
Lewis T. \V. Batch, Uev, Dr. Phillips, Rev, Krs
kine Mason,.l. Kearny Dodgers, .11. D., Richard .I.
1 ticker, Esq , George l.atvrio, Esq., John Lawrie,
Esq., Robert Hogan, Esq , Stephen Camhreleng,
Esq., Charles Edwards, Esq, Redwood Fisher,
Esq., Lloyd W. Wells, Esq., 11. Wreaks, Esq..
Johns. Bartlett,Esq.,Now York-, Ht. Uev. Bishop
Bowen, Geo. Y. Davis, Jos. Lawton, It. F Henry,
A. S. Wilmington, Ksqrs. Charleston, So. Ca.
June 21 13tw
W. MILO OLIN. 0. PUTNAM ’
OLIN & PUTN A M, Attornies and Counsellors
at Law and Solicitorspn Equity, will practice
in Warren, Hancock, Wilkes, Taliaferro, and
Oglethorpe, of the northern circuit, Bibb, of the
Flint, Richmond and Columbia of the middle.—
OlHee in Warrenton, Warren county ,Ga.
may Hi w3m
<1 ACTION.—The public is cautioned against
) trading for a promissory i.,nc. made by Samuel'
Howell, on or about the third day of April last,
payable Ist of Januan last,for One Hundred Dol
lars, interest from dkte. in favor of .T. W. Kittles,
and by him endorsed—(he same having been lost or
mislaid by the subscriber, to whom settlement has
been made by the drawer. THUS. BARNES.
mar 6 wtf
THUNDERING SPUING. ,
rpilE proprietors of this natural curiosity, fes
-1 peclfully inform their friends, and the travel
ling public generally, that they are prepared to ac
commodate all who may favor them with a call.
The very short period w hich haa intervened sinco
their purchase, added to a scarcity of materials, has
rendered it difficult to improve as extensively as
they desired i yet they know themselves willing to
devote their undivided attention to promote tha
comfort and convenience of visitors and travellers..
The water combines high medicinal qualities,
containing strong impregnations of Saltpetre, Mag.
nesia, &c., ascertained from a partial analysis. W’e
deem it unnecessary to append to this notice, a list-'
of certificates relative to cures elicited by using the
water, as the doubts of the sceptical would nut he
removed, and those who would believe, may credit
the assertion, as such can he proved at any time.
Several cases of violent Rheumatism have been en
tirely relieved; also 'letter, Scald-head, running'
Ulcers, Sic. individuals laboring under Dyspepsia,
will experience great relief from the use of the
water. It is known to be highly efficacious in re
lieving all cutaneous diseases.
It is due to ourselves, and for the information of
the public at large, to stale at least some of the
mineral properties of the water; and also the na
ture of some of the diseases which have been cured'
at this place. Wc are aware of the prejudices gen
erally engendered by vaunting advertisements of
ike character.
The location of the spring in Upson county, is in
a healthy region nearly surrounded by large hills
on the north side of the Pine Mountain. A consid
erable quantity of game abounds in the woods ad
jacent, for the delight of sportsmen ; and Flint River,
is sufficiently contiguous to alibi'd amusement t
the angler.
Families desiring it, can find ample seclusion from,
dusty streets and miasmatic regions of the lower
counties, at the Thundering Spring,* whore no
pains will he spared on the part of the proprietors,
to render their visit agreeable.
Gaming and oilier irregularities will be prohib
ited. Good order will be strictly- enforced.
Afflicted persons will have a sepamte tabic pre
pared if desired, where they can Ivave all the atten
tion paid them they may require
The Bar will he supplied with choice Liquors of
various kinds, andattendod by an efficient bar keeper
RATES OF BOARD.
Persons per day, $1 00
Persons per week, 6 50
Four weeks and longer (per week) 550
Families stationary, per month, “ 5 00
Children and servants half price.
Horse per day, 75
Hors* per week, $3 00
Horse per month, 12 00
Individuals wishing to remain one week or lon
ger, will please to make it known at the bar.
JOHN L. COCHRAN,
A. J. McAFEE.
Upson County, Ga., June 11 w3m
* For the information of those who are unacquain
ted with the origin of the somewhat portentous ap
pellation of this place, it is perhaps due to observe'
that the great similarity between the noise occa
sioned by the spring and the rumbling of distant
thunder, suggested the name.
THE TTIIJK POMADE DIVINE.
IN XTENSIVELY used in Europe, never before
"j introduced into America, an infallible cure
and a delightful preventive of Chapped Hands and
Lips, &ic. This elegant article gives a delicacy of
fragrance and that natural healthful appearance to
the skin no other preparation of the kind has been
known to produce. It immediately removes PIM
PLES and other disagreeable ERUPTIONS, pre
vents BRUISES from turning black, cures BURNS
and SCALDS, alleviating pain, and preventing
blisters, it is also exceedingly useful for SORE
BREASTS. So invaluable is this compound for
every inconvenience to which the skin is liable,
that none who have proved its benefits will ever
willingly be without if.
Sold in Glass*s at 25 and 50 cents each, with
full particulars, and directions for use. Forsale by
ROBER T CARTER, Druggist,
Broad st. and at
T. ff. PLANT’S Bookstore.
Where certificates of its successful application
may he seen. june2l swtf
HEALTH GIVING lIEVEKaGE.
fTMHE underoigned have received a supply of
g Water frorp the White Svlhhvr Spring,
Greenbrierceunty, Va. The high reputation which
the water of this spring has acquired, in the pre
vention and cure of diseases', has long rendered it
an object of peculiar interest to the public. Ex
tensive experience lias demonstrated, that it may
be transported to any distance, and kept in barrels
or bottles for any desired length of time, without,
the slightest deterioration of its medicinal virtues
or efficiency. TURPIN, D’ANTTGNAC & Co.
july 12 ‘ sw6t
TO THE PUIII.IC.
| 5 N. WILSON, respectfully informs thepub
(ll, lie, that lie lias established a new line of
I LOUR HORSE POST COACHES, from Athens
-1 to Clarkcsville, via Hcllicon Springs and Madison
Springs, and Carnesvillc, three times a week.
? leaves athf.ks,
r Tuesdays, -> at 2 o’clock A. SI.
Thursdays, v & arrive atClarks
,- Saturdays, j ville, at Sp. .11.
- LEAVES CLARICES VILLE,
e Mondays -j at 2 o’clock, A. M.
- I Wednesdays, [- and arrive at Athens
Fridays, 3 at S P. M.
may IS 3n,trw